MOVES to build a skateboard park in honour of a Bangor teenager are forging ahead.

The skateboard park fundraising committee has now identified an area of Beach Road green which would be suitable to build a skateboard park.

Keen skateboarder Darren Rhys Frost, 18, a former pupil of Ysgol Friars and Ysgol Gynradd Bethel, was killed in December 2009 after colliding with a car as he cycled from the JJB sports store in Shrewsbury where he worked, 10 miles to his father’s home in Brockton.

He had moved to Shropshire because he couldn’t find work locally. It was his first Christmas away from home.

Mother Hazel Frost has been busy organising fundraising activities and is delighted at the progress being shown by the committee.

Committee member Robert Parsonson said: “We have been working in conjunction with Gwynedd Council on this and we hope that there will be a planning application going in soon.

“What we'd like to do is build a small concrete skateboarding bowl at the south end of the football pitch on Beach Road.

“It’s all looking very promising, we’re hopeful that something will be done this year.

“As part of the fundraising drive we are also selling a small button badge designed for us by renowned Welsh artist Pete Fowler who has painted album covers for the Super Furry Animals.

“These will be available to buy for a minimum donation of £1 from Cob Records Bangor – every little bit counts.”

Hazel said: “I leave the skateboarding side of things to the committee as I don’t understand it, all I know is that my boy really enjoyed skateboarding.

“At the moment we’ve raised around £3,500 and we’ve a long way to go to reach £40,000 that we need but things are now getting under way.

“The main thing for me is to walk up Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa next year and I’m now looking to take a party of 10 with me.

“I’ve done a bit of walking, but the real training starts after Easter.

“I’m also going to be doing a sky dive and next New Year’s Day will be jumping into the sea off Holyhead.”

A spokesman for Gwynedd Council said that the authority had received a planning application earlier this month to build a skatepark at the King George’s field, Beach Road, Bangor.